Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 1,865,908 (39.8%), Breckinridge 848,019 (18.1%), Bell 590,901 (12.6%), and Douglas 1,380,202 (29.5%). Lincoln received his 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Lincoln received electoral votes from the following states: California 4, Connecticut 6, Illinois 11, Indiana 13, Iowa 4, Maine 8, Massachusetts 13, Michigan 6, Minnesota 4, New Hampshire 5, New Jersey 4 of the 7 electoral votes, New York 35, Ohio 23, Oregon 3, Pennsylvania 27, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 5, and Washington 5.
Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4%), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 1,865,908 (39.8%), Breckinridge 848,019 (18.1%), Bell 590,901 (12.6%), and Douglas 1,380,202 (29.5%). Lincoln received his 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Lincoln received electoral votes from the following states: California 4, Connecticut 6, Illinois 11, Indiana 13, Iowa 4, Maine 8, Massachusetts 13, Michigan 6, Minnesota 4, New Hampshire 5, New Jersey 4 of the 7 electoral votes, New York 35, Ohio 23, Oregon 3, Pennsylvania 27, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 5, and Washington 5.
Abraham Lincoln received 59.41% of the electoral votes in the 1860 U. S. Presidential election.
Yes - as the first Republican president!
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Being a Democrat, Stephen Douglas was supported by the South in the Election of 1860. He lost the election to Abraham Lincoln.
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He lost 8 prior elections, before winning the Presidential election in 1860. He never lost any Presidential election, and he ran twice, and was elected twice, as President.
Abraham Lincoln's first election was in August 1832. He ran for a seat on the Illinois General Assembly but lost.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer. He had served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1858, but he lost to Stephen A. Douglas, one of his opponents in the 1860 presidential election.
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i think he lost because Lincoln had more clot than Douglass and because Douglass was for slavery and Lincoln was not
He ran for senate when you actually have sex. IT NEVER HAPPENED
1860 U. S. Presidential / Vice Presidential Election Results:180 votes - Abraham Lincoln / Hannibal Hamlin72 votes - John C. Breckinridge / Joseph Lane39 votes - John Bell / Edward Everett12 votes - Stephen A. Douglas / Herschel V. Johnson
Abraham Lincoln ran for his first public office in 1832. He lost an election to the Illinois State legislature.
Yes, it is true. The White majority was swayed over the Lincoln camp or side.
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